Utah

The region's municipal bond industry insiders saw a silver lining in a 21% increase for new money volume.

Voters in three states approved Medicaid expansion, highlighting dozens of ballot measures around the country that will impact budgets and credit.

School vouchers in Arizona and bond measures in Colorado are among the fiscal ballot measures Southwest voters will decide Tuesday.

Salt Lake City will bring $875 million of revenue bonds this month for its airport.

Wilshire Consulting said the aggregate funded ratio for U.S. state pension plans remained unchanged between and first and second quarters of 2018 at 70.8%, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous 12 months.

Bond volume in the region fell sharply in the first half of 2018, though one expert saw the 16% drop as better than anticipated.

The Walton Family Foundation provided seed funds to create two “innovative” financing vehicles for charter school facilities.

Alternative funding strategies, collaborations and resiliency awareness were the buzzwords at an S&P housing conference in New York.

Municipal bond volume across the eight-state Southwest region in 2017 fell 9% below its 2016 record.

Utah will bring $326 million of triple-A general obligation bonds to market to fund an ambitious prison relocation and transportation projects.